A. Thomas Golden

After serving as in-house counsel at the Whitaker Corporation in Los Angeles, Professor Golden began teaching at TJSL in 1976 as a member of the adjunct faculty. For the next seven years, while alternating between adjunct and resident faculty status, he also practiced law with Fredman, Silverberg & Lewis, a San Diego law firm, and then in his own civil litigation practice. He was a member of the resident full-time faculty continuously from 1983 to 2016.

In addition to serving as assistant dean for several years, Professor Golden was the director of foreign study programs and led legal study groups to Beijing, China, and Cambridge, England. He taught Comparative Antitrust Law in the school’s summer foreign study program in Nice, France.  He provided instruction on the American Legal System to numerous groups of visiting Brazilian lawyers and law students in a legal education exchange program operated by the school between semesters from 2011 to 2013, and subsequently in a Legal English program. He was the Director of Residential Graduate Law Degree Programs in American Legal Studies and International Trade from 2010 to 2016 and taught the introductory course for foreign students in the American Legal Studies LL.M. program from its inception until 2024.  He has also designed and taught coursework in the school’s online M.S.L. program.

Professor Golden volunteers his services for presentations on the law for civic groups and schools. The Thomas Jefferson Student Bar Association Alumnus of the Year award was named in his honor.

Courses include: Contracts I & II, Remedies, Law of Democracy (Election Law), Lawyering Skills, Introduction to the American Legal System for Foreign Lawyers.